Some of you might have seen my Ezreal post around a month ago. In that post I mentioned I would be working on a Kassadin version and this is what came out of it.

I was lucky enough to be able to work with r/KassadinMains on this more visual part of their community guide. All the info in here came from this community guide (still being worked on) or from the Discord server and reviewed by Caristinn and u/SteDa with the help of others. So you know, if you want anything cleared up about Kassadin just jump in their server and ask away. Feedback is always appreciated too.

Here's the graphic. The best rune page in this patch (8.17) is the Fleet Footwork one. If you are looking for some kassadin vods to learn from go watch Dopa or Xin Ge, this last one is harder to find but this is his stream.

Finally, I'd like to mention that making these has been a blast so far. If any of you would like to see a different champion made, my commissions are open so feel free to DM me here, on Twitter or on Discord. Same goes for any other projects you could have in mind.

So many of my games are legit ending at 20-25 mins and my teams just feed too much to come back. When I powerspike with RoA+Lichbane I can sometimes pop their ADC even if they're like 4/0 or something. With Seraph's it feels strong once it's stacked but that takes up to 25 mins at which time the game is already over.

So yeah guys ima trash D5 player who really want to get into kass , and I want ask some questions.

I see some of the high Elo kass players go first item roa into seraphs and lich/morello/hourglass and etc..

Some of them don’t even buy roa they just go seraphs into lichbane and more dmg items and I actually find my self more success without roa .
Of course it depends on the matchup but
Some ppl say to not even buy lich bane and get a morello after the roa and seraphs if u don’t need any defensive and always go first item roa.
I am very confused about kass build path and I think that the more dmg I have I can carry a lot harder, I personally like the full assassin type build.
It’s always nice to have the Hp mana and ap scaling from roa but I personally don’t like it .

If I go almost every game go seraphs & lich and so on.
do you thing I’m doing wrong ?

As the title says, haven't felt very strong or able to solo carry on Kass the last few days. Not sure what to do in a few situations.

Find it difficult to play against teams that are very tanky. Champs like Sion, Cho, Galio are just such a pain to kill or to play around. Sion is easier to avoid, but Cho and Galio are a massive pain.

I feel outscaled by ADCs. Jinx, Trist, Vayne and Kaisa all melt me faster than I melt them. Maybe I should stop buying Tabis and take Domination as secondary instead of Resolve? I often take ignite now

It's not that common, but I really don't know how to play when my comp wants to kite or poke and they have a tanky comp that wants to play front to back. I can't really fight the frontline, no one on my team wants to start a fight, and if I try to go for backline it only works if I delete someone in one rotation (or two rotations with zhonya), and even then you still have to get out otherwise it's just 1 for 1.

I pretty much always go Fleet with Resolve secondary, should I go for other stuff if I'm in an easy lane? I know some people go Elec but I'm afraid of being forced out of lane without Fleet sustain. My item build is always RoA Archangel's Zhonya Rabadon and last item Lich Bane, Void or sometimes Morello if I have to reduce healing.

I'm happy enough with my build really (except for boots, maybe I should drop the Tabis for Sorcs more often). And looking for some tips on different rune setups when I feel like I need to be more bursty. And finally some advice on comps would be really appreciated, what comps to drop kass(or dodge) for something else in terms of my team or their team (seriously fuck Cho).

Super rambly post, any of you who make it through it my heartfelt thanks.

EDIT: Thanks for all the tips! Definitely gonna explore different runes, and drop resolve secondary.

Yasuo, Zed, Talon, Wukong.. I always feed. I don’t understand how NOT to feed. What am I doing wrong? How do you play against those champions? I really like Kassadin, and my other main mid laner is Vladimir. I just don’t know how to go even or beat those matchups, and I’m always flamed for feeding. Please save me.

Hey there, I'm becoming an kassadin OTP and having so much fun with him. However I almost always lose against a Diana. I don't know why, I feel like it should be an easy matchup for kassadin. It's an ap melee assassin after all. Do you guys have any tips for our boy in purple?

I faced both of them recently. Mostly (both except Darius) I managed to survive with FF + resolve secondary, building seeker's after catalyst, but that slowed me down and had 0 impact. If my team lose early, we lose.

Anyway, I'm deciding to close out my attempt at a miracle run back into Challenger. I was 600 LP 2 weeks ago at rank #43, and I got greedy for a rush to rank 10 in which I never dodged games (even if someone was threatening to int). Ended up falling down to mid Master. Could I theoretically get a 13 game winstreak? Yep. It's happened before, but I'm not wasting energy on it and just want to take a break at this point after playing 15-20 games a day for the past week.

-Always use your daily dodge. It's only 3 LP, you get it every 16 hours. Don't waste time hoping to luck out when you get multiple autofilled players, especially if they're autofilled support mains or autofilled junglers. This feature really has to go. Sometimes, it might even be an okay idea to spend -10 LP on a second dodge of the day.

-If you're in an elo/region where there's not many people queueing, be smart and wait a few minutes before queueing back up after a dodge if you want to play Kassadin.

-Mid lane's honestly kind of a joke role right now. It's overrun by bruiser champions and lacks a lot of carry agency it did in the past with the exception of a few insanely overtuned outliers like Irelia and Aatrox. If I had to rate the roles in order of carry potential, it'd be Jungle>Top>Mid/ADC/Support depending on what champions you play in those last three positions. Funnily enough, even if you do main the outliers then you won't often even be able to play them because they're banned. A lot of mid lane "carrying" is now put into warding for other lanes.

-It's not about the games you lose where you have bad teammates, it's the games you lose where you could have carried even despite them. With enough experience, you'll know the difference. The "don't blame your teammates" should be amended to "don't always blame your teammates", and you're going to find yourself tilted pretty fast if you're bearing the weight of every game on your shoulders. It's how I can keep a calm mental game even after playing an insane amount of games per day.

-Ping a lot. If you see your jungler going to a scuttle crab, danger ping until you can't ping anymore. If this makes them say "ping again and I afk", ping them again.

-Most NA junglers have absolutely garbage attitudes and you'll find yourself working against them rather than with them pretty often, especially if you're playing a weak early game champion like Kassadin.

-Learn a strong early game champion in games where you must have a winning 2v2 jungle matchup or at least some kind of pressure on the map. LeBlanc/Talon/Ahri/Annie work fine for this purpose. If you pick Kassadin every single game, you're making a mistake if you want to climb.

-Ban Aatrox. Do not risk this shit getting through. You don't know if it's going Top or Mid or even Jungle, and you don't want it going into your lane. I normally advise banning for your matchup and thinking more of what's just generally overpowered (which is why my secondary ban is Urgot, followed by Camille, followed by Xin), but Aatrox is a new level of hell and it's not like he's a bad ban either.

-Jungle is a monstrously overtuned role because of the gold efficiency of their items/the power of red smite and they gain way too much EXP/gold for how low-risk farming neutral camps is. It just keeps getting powercreeped harder every season. When are jungle mains going to drop the bullshit about "buy wards win games"? Never. Riot doesn't seem intent on fixing the role and their persecution complex is great enough that the community completely believes that even Camille's ganks are balanced. Also, it's hilarious that a champion with Kayn's kit is only considered A or B tier. He's a fast clearing, self-healing jungler that can move through fucking walls and has a Zed R, and he's not S+ tier because other champions are even more overpowered than that. Wow!

-NA soloQ has a problem where a large amount of the mid laners are boring. I'm not saying they're bad, I'm saying they're boring and aren't playing champions where they can truly demonstrate their skill. Look at Caps, look at Perkz. They were playing Yasuo and Zed and Riven mid lane to showcase their talent-- why are our Scouting Grounds mid laners spamming Malzahar so hard? Strompest is the exception. Are they just browbeat by the junglers on our server into playing that autofill champion?

-DuoQ abuse is a really great way to climb in high elo and I don't even know what I think of it at this point since not duoQing only offers you the most shit quality games you'll see in a major region. Does it feel good to go 40 cs up on an autofilled support playing Lux mid? Not really.

-This season's meta was actually pretty great and is my favorite season since S2. The complaints from high elo streamers largely have to do with matchmaking caused by low population size/autofill/people constantly dodging autofills and making new accounts to smurf on when they have to dodge autofills. Jungle being comically broken is nothing new, it's just something to be expected at this point. It's been the standard since Season 3!

-Kassadin isn't overpowered. He just now has a place in the soloQ meta and people feel weird about that because of the perception of "i was winning lane then he hit 16 and carried!" You couldn't end the game earlier? It's not like he's even a contested pick. He's strictly good when used when you have early game powerlanes that can survive you being useless midgame, and when you know he's not going to get massively counterpicked by something like Aatrox.

-4mids1championselect isn't that bad as long as one of them can jungle.

-Champions that people don't expect to be good against Kassadin but are: Annie, Lux, Cassiopeia, Malzahar, LeBlanc, Brand. Karthus used to be pretty great, but Fleet Footwork changed that dynamic.

-You're pretty good at around 11-13, don't tunnel on 16. If you're making it to 16 and finding yourself still losing games often, then you're probably tunnelling too hard on killing the backline and/or not trying hard enough to find interesting flanks with the angles you can go lategame with sweeper/pink vision. Predict where the enemy is playing around and warding (usually baron), dodge minion waves, go the long way over walls, etc. Just go hard and look to kill someone like that before the fight even starts.

-Kassadin top is fine as a last pick. I like it against Lissandra, Teemo, Viktor, Maokai, Swain, Malphite, and Ryze. It's not terrible against Akali, Ornn (will be even better for Kass post-Ornn PBE changes), Poppy, Fiora, and Wukong.

Was looking at counters to Viktor top recently, and remembered that our own riftwalker scales as hard as him, has an magic damage shield. I was wondering if this is a favorable lane for kassadin, or if the long lane in top lane makes him too susceptible to ganks to let him get farm to get his ROA

Hey I've been playing a lot of Ekko and now I wanna learn Kassadin. What should I be aiming to do? How is he similar to or different from Ekko? What kind of build should I be aiming for, mage-like or more assassin-like? Thanks for your help in advance.